Overcast and humid in early am. Partly cloudy, 82. I cleaned and waxed floors in the dining room and living room.
Comment: Mundane day on the hill, world-changing event in Hiroshima on this day, now 75 years ago today....lest we forget....
On August 6, 1945, 8.15 am, the uranium atom bomb exploded 580 meters above the city of Hiroshima with a blinding flash, creating a giant fireball and sending surface temperatures to 4,000C. Fierce heat rays and radiation burst out in every direction, unleashing a high pressure shockwave, vaporizing tens of thousands of people and animals, melting buildings and streetcars, reducing a 400-year-old city to dust.
Housewives and children were incinerated instantly or paralyses in their daily routines, their internal organs boiled and their bones charred into brittle charcoal....from a Japanese website about the event...
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